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Digital ativists and scholarship in Brazil
25
Mar
Among young people is great addition to concern about the labor market, see the previous post, also the quality
of education and levels of inequality remain a major concern and activists are protesting.
While access has improved (FIES has troubles, found for scholarship in Brazil), and inequality has fallen between income levels and blacks, the differences are still very worrying and show a society with great difficulty inclusion.
The figures show that although access has risen from 7% to 18% in Brazil, a number that is too small even looking Latin American countries, 20% of lower income rose only 1% to 4%, and grew more between 20% of higher income, since the number of white grew from 11% to 26%, while black 3% to 11%, growth is reasonable, but the item quality is what worries most.
Looking at the desirable goal for the average level of preparation for university, performance in public schools is wide of the goal in basic subjects such as English language and mathematics, where the public school level is very critical, that implies worst placements in the labor market, where quality somehow be measured in performance.
Brazil has 5.3 million young still in the “neither-nor”, young that neither study nor work, and Latin America are 6.3 million young people in this situation, it means that we are the record holders and contribute to the largest share of neither-nor.
Data are from 2011, but since then the crisis was already underway, now appeared.
Activism and the economic crisis
24
Mar
Even considered that the INPE data (Brazilian National Institute of Education, Ministry of Research) may be exaggerated, the data say that young people between 18 and 24, who were enrolled in higher education were 15% in 2002, and must have passed to 29.9%, according to official data, in 2011, and should be getting in fact only 30% now in 2015.
Although the level of teaching quality is to be questioned, the fact is that those who read more, to better understand the reality and tends to be more critical, but most of those who extol this data forget the politizador role of social networks.
Activists are there protesting and this is independent of social class, the young case.
The other reason is forgotten the economic crisis, ignored by official data until last year, can not now be ignored, the growth has come to be celebrated by 7% grew in the wake of profligacy and easy credit, now must not exceed the 1% and can remain so for years to come.
So the fact that there was “growing” the possibility of rapid improvement in the standard of living of Brazilians, especially the younger ones, it becomes frustrating when unemployment levels reach rates of 12.4%, which is three times among older, so the society excludes youngs and olds over 50 years.
The data show that growth was in courses “in-person and distance” and although the official campaign talk of the growth of public schools, the numbers (data from Epoca magazine) does not indicate that this growth is significant, lack analyze the quality and who are freshmen, that is, if there is inclusion, that is for tomorrow.
Eclipse of reason, individualism and humanism
19
Mar
Man can for the first time in its history watch consciously and intentionally a change in time, as if we had today’s consciousness but assistíssemos the late Middle Ages, now not right.
What is the reason, one of the most brilliant writings of Max Horkheimer’s “Eclipse of Reason” read it in a voluntary exile when turned in to a reflection on our goals, affections and attachments, read at that time, “again and again, when urban culture race reached its peak, for example, in Florence in the fifteenth century, there was a balance similar to the psychological forces “(Horkheimer, 2002, p. 136).
It is for this social issue, not individual, so many people are looking for a saving force, autoajudas manuals, doctrines that are somehow something that points to the balance, but will not find in the individual and in just a few groups .
The individual subject to the state, endowed with almost divine powers over the individual which should be your protector, your spoiler and can not sustain their minimum rights, health, education and above all peace.
Blame this individualism of individual, is to take the part for the whole, this unprotected and isolated individual is forced to seek refuge for maintenance and dignified life and individualism is the resulting effect and not the cause of “eclipse” that society lives.
The reason for the eclipse comes also of being in pieces: be social, be individual and spiritual being, knowledge of fragmentation and also fragments the man in parts, forgetting -If your unit be designed to infinity, as is essential, and changeable and finite in appearance only what becomes the agreement of the contextual and temporary need, but are for basic needs that were designed: sociability, love and peace.
We exchanged essential for emergency, trade structures and loved by Being, and it perish and the individual penalty for an existence always subject to the “eclipse” of an end of season.
Internet Explorer will end
18
Mar
In 1990 was born the WWW (World Wide Web), soon after, in 1994, the Mosaic the first to incorporate text and images on the
same page made by students of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and only later was born proprietary software (paid ) done by Microsoft Explorer.
The following year in October 1994, an article in Wired magazine pointed to the emergence of the browser as the responsible for making the online world in a “vast universe,” is written in the online magazine “You can come at any time and start wander without internet addresses or keyboard commands. ”
The explorer born of a version of Mosaic made by Spyglass company, which licensed its technology but not the source code, that is, is free but not open-source.
The first was paid browser Netscape Navigator, the main product of Netscape Communications Corporation and only in 1995 that he released a graphic version, called Netscape Gold, the browser then dominated in terms of usage share, but had no great survival in 2002 had almost disappeared.
Facing major problems with the market the Explorer continued releasing versions, often with problems, including legal problems had accused of market monopolization attempts, which for this reason had to incorporate some features of the Java language that was open source.
His debut on August 16, 1995, a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic it is said that the team was 6 people in early development, six months later came the Windows NT, and versions have not stopped, recently reached Explorer version 9.
Windows 9 was launched in beta with full support for CSS 3 and other properties, but the company has already announced the end of this versioning
Policrise and custody of the planet
13
Mar
Interestingly the term crisis comes from Hippocrates, doctor of classical antiquity, which identified with this name the possibility
of a disease and may have a favorable sense or not, so are many vaccines today, but you need to diagnose the disease or danger it, which is the planet disease at this time?
Meeting in Edgar Morin better answers and better diagnostics, beyond the only way that seems feasible: As a global governance of common destiny, he writes a book that is an appeal to UN: The world has no more time to lose: Appeal by a caring and responsible global governance, in which they write 6 more great thinkers: Michel Rocard, Stephane Hessel, P. Sloterdijk, B. Myiet, Michael Doyle and others.
But as Morin sees the crisis, he explains himself: “The crisis is not the opposite of development, but the very form of this” he wrote in the interviews of Djenane Kareh Tager, published by Bertrand Brazil in 2010.
Morin had written in 1995 on the issue of development he said: “The development has two aspects. On the one hand, is the global myth that industrial societies affect the well-being, reduce their extreme inequalities and provide individuals with the greatest happiness that a society can do without. On the other hand, is a reductive conception, in which economic growth is necessary and sufficient engine of all social, psychological and moral development.
This technical-economic conception ignores the human problems of identity, community, solidarity and culture. He wrote “On Complexity“.
In his book On my left, which questions the ideological paradigms still in fashion here in our “sad tropics”, meeting a key idea for your policrise on page 16: “An invisible component of policrise is the crisis of thought,” Morin calls policrise: the interdependent crises of the economy of Western civilization, the traditional civilizations, development, we are dealing with placebos cancer of a society in decay.
You need to rethink the thought, be able to move in a profound way in the structures, stop ignoring the crowds, and globalize the crisis there, right there is the possible meaning of this crisis, I believe as Morin: “promote the economic, social, cultural cooperation all that goes towards solidarity unity of mankind “, the rest is football fans.
In America, Wayne E. Barker write the books America Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception, and he see many politicians and religious leaders believe so, as do the majority of Americans, based on public opinion polls taken over the past several years. But is this crisis of values real?
Wikipedia processes NSA
12
Mar
According to British newspaper The Guardian, the digital encyclopedia Wikipedia says that the NSA is violating the US Constitution in its first amendment, which protects freedom of expression and with the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees to be made no search and seizure without cause The program called Upstream (uploading a file in any website or server) would be capturing information from foreign countries abroad.
Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia, by the institution’s blog said: “By stapling the backbone of the Internet (network interconnection), the NSA is stretching the backbone of democracy”, making the analogy to say that democracy is being affected.
The NSA (National Security Agency) is an organization connected to American intelligence, there are games with the agency name in English Never Say Anything (never say something) or in Portuguese “Não Conheço esta Agencia” (No one knows this agency).
The post also states that the NSA exceeded practices guaranteed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which Congress passed in 2008 to ensure US homeland security.
Besides Wikipedia, eight other institutions participated in the protest, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
International Women’s Day and the numbers
06
Mar
March 08 is International Women’s Day, and the numbers and data across the globe and especiall
y in Brazil are still alarming.
There is still a large gender inequality in economic, social and political values.
The numbers in Brazil, according to IPEA (Brazilian Institute of Applied Economic Research), violence against women in households decreased by 10%, but the evidence is mixed as there are other studies showing that overall violence against women increased, this may indicate that the law is effective only occasionally.
The effectiveness of the Brazilian Maria da Penha Law (PML), established in 2006, shows that the focus is not violence with death, because the research had the assumption that domestic violence occurs in cycles, and there is a worsening in the aggression involved in relatives, but this masking data is bad for one’s effectiveness in general the law.
http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/topicos/10869131/lei-n-11340-de-07-de-agosto-de-2006
According to data presented in the CNJ (National Council of Justice) on 19/02, through the Standing Committee on Access to Justice and Citizenship and the Department of Judicial Research, 92 000 women were murdered in the world in the last 30 years, however this number 43,700 were killed in the last decade, the growth is evident.
Since the creation of Maria da Penha Law by the year 2012, were created 6612 sticks or exclusive courts for processing and judgment of actions arising from the practice of violence against women, the study said they would need 54 more sticks to a large population of cities within the country.
The report also calls for the improvement in spatial judicial units in Brazil, considering demographic, urban and social criteria.
Europe plan 5G to advance
05
Mar
The Europe in the 90s was a leader in second generation GSM technology, the old lumbering cell, was lagging behind 4G networks of broadband services, in relation to the United States and Eastern countries such as Japan and South Korea.
In a panel during the fair MWC (see the post on 03 March), Guenther Oettinger EU commission for the Digital Society and Economy said; “With 5G, Europe has a great opportunity to reinvent the stage of its telecommunications industry,” indicating a return to growth that is strategic for the economy in general.
The operators in the region, including Britain’s Vodafone and Spain’s Telefonica, were slow in deploying 4G while Japan, South Korea and the US were quick when compared to other advanced economies.
Corrupt companies continue acting
03
Mar
Many companies have complained in the operation Lava Jet still active and ask for new loans to the BNDES, which offered low interest rates in the past these companies, among them stand out from the Sete Brasil, created in 2011 to build and send charter to Petrobras 28 probes the pre-salt exploration, and which had been facing various problems encountered by the financial sector, with 8 members of Queiroz Galvão family.
A former director of the company and former executive manager of Petrobras, Pedro Barusco Filho, accepted an award-winning tipoff, but the credit release is a matter of company survival, which did not exist before, and therefore was “created” by government funding .
Another curious case is the Galvão Group, whose names appear in HSBC in Switzerland, she won the award of the BR-153, between Goiás and Tocantins, in an auction held last May, it is unclear how the bid was made, as the whistleblower Peter Barusco runs in secrecy and should hardly come forward, it would be a “leak”.
She asks for a financing of R $ 2.66 billion to the BNDES, or at least a short-term credit called loan-point, as is usual in this type of operation, is released in front, while the total loan is analyzed.
The construction Galvão Engineering, threatened the government in a letter sent in early February for the National Land Transportation Agency (ANTT), Galvão BR-153diz dealership that the bridge loan is not released until next week, will be forced to stop the works and fire workers.
The Galvão Group reported that “awaiting release provided credit lines to give notice following services”, companies in the HSBC are all in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven, which has a population close to 23,000 people.
BNDES not comment on the case of Galvão or of other projects.
Numbers and more Jet Wash
26
Feb
Brazilian operation´s Lava Jato(Wash Jet$), which uncovered a true hydra of corruption at Petrobrás starts coming to politicians and from there you can begin to address barriers, but what has been done, that money was recovered?
As news of the Federal Public Ministry, is not only the judge Sergio Moro begins to suffer political attacks, disclose on their official website that the Lava Operation Jet already found a misuse of R $ 2.1 billion from Petrobrás.
When all are 232 companies and 150 people under investigation, 12 agreements were signed whistleblower award and 18 criminal charges against 86 people, some linked to political, but no politician can be quoted by name because of special privileges.
According to Paulo Roberto Costa, 60% of the fee was for political and 20% were divided between him and the scheme operator, the rest was to cover any operating costs: travel, accommodation and other expenses, all very “professional”.
There would be a list of politicians who would be delivered to the public this week, who are they, the political influence and government arms strive to hide this data.
Meanwhile, more branches are made this week by the country, wait!
